Chapter 1491

"Professor Yang, we talk as we walk." Mr. Zheng has seen Yang Rui several times, and he is a familiar young man in the scientific field.

When he needs to make decisions about science, he occasionally consults Yang Rui. Of course, most of the time, it is through documents.

"I didn't mean to disturb you, but I think I should report the latest news of the laboratory immediately," Yang said with a smile to the accompanying CCTV official

"Well, is everything all right?" Zheng's first thought was the same as Yang Rui's, whether something had happened.

Unlike researchers who think about laboratory accidents so easily, ordinary people are still worried about laboratories, especially biological laboratories.

Even for senior officials, accidents can be very serious.

For example, the chemical plant accident in India in the 1970s made them very popular in the world.

Fortunately, Yang Rui's expression is relaxed, and Zheng doesn't have to think too deeply.

Yang Rui looked to both sides and said, "I don't know if you remember that I once asked for a larger research project as the No.1 Project of genetic engineering laboratory."

"Of course, I'm impressed. You asked for a lot of money." Zheng Lao laughed.

In terms of the total amount of capital, the first thing China spends most is infrastructure, and the second is factory upgrading. The so-called "infrastructure maniac" is not for nothing, such as the Gezhouba project, which was world-class in the 1980s. Although there are three Gorges projects behind it, we can't exaggerate because of the records behind, I don't think the previous records matter.

Compared with infrastructure spending, China's military spending is nothing. Naturally, research funding is second to none. The tens of millions of yuan of funds given to Yang Rui can not be said to be well-known, and relevant people have heard about it.

Yang Rui laughed twice, and then said seriously: "money is not wasted, we have made it."

"Yo? What are you doing? That's right. To prosper the country through science and education is to put science on the agenda and focus on education. CCTV should also do more interviews and reports in this regard. " Zheng didn't let the company on both sides be too lonely.

"Sure." CCTV cadres nearby quickly expressed their position and said with a smile to Yang Rui: "we have been following Professor Yang's research, and we will continue to follow it in the future..."

Yang Rui nodded his head and said, "if you just make part of it, you can't delay your journey."

"Well. Did you do it? " Mr. Zheng knows what Yang Rui is doing.

Yang Rui nodded solemnly. He had confirmed it again and again. At this time, he said without hesitation: "as expected, we have completed the project, and the project can be declared a success, but I'm sorry."

Mr. Zheng walked at an even pace and stopped at once.

If the cadres who followed behind were not promoted, there would have been problems at that time.

"In this way, find a conference room with a telephone. Yang Rui will come with me first." Mr. Zheng said something to the people of CCTV. Fortunately, some stunned cadres responded quickly.

"Come to my office. There's a secret call." The leader of the directing group immediately stepped forward to open the way. When he got to the place, he was pulled out again.

Mr. Zheng and Mr. Yang Rui entered one after another and closed the door tightly.

The leader who was shut out looked back and said in a low voice, "Huang MI, will the visit continue?"

"Of course." "The time may be shortened and the journey will not change," Huang said

"I see. I'll rearrange the rehearsal..."

"Don't bother, rehearsal is as usual." Secretary Huang's reply immediately made several people sad.

In the room, Zheng Lao's expression is not relaxed.

If we want to explain the meaning of "sheep cloning" to a person outside the academic circle, we can use one sentence to explain that human cloning is no longer technically difficult.

Yes, the real significance of sheep cloning is that it is the first mammal to be cloned. Before that, humans have cloned microorganisms, invertebrates, fishes and amphibians

But cloning mammals, and somatic cloning, is the first and most worrying.

When it comes to the difficulty of human cloning, it's just a matter of spending some money and time. If you want a number, a well-equipped genetics laboratory plus tens of millions of dollars, plus a few years, can definitely make human cloning.

Some people may say that tens of millions of dollars is not a small amount, and a few years is not short, and how much money and how many years?It doesn't matter how much. What we need to pay attention to now is the order of magnitude.

Tens of millions of dollars for any single laboratory, it is a great expense, but for a project that the world cares about, it is nothing.

If there were no ethical and public opinion restrictions, any radio and television station or film company might be willing to pay to be a human clone.

Before the advent of cloned sheep, we did not know how long it would take to cross this line.

From the perspective of hindsight, many people probably think that sheep cloning is reasonable. However, this is not the way of science.

Mammal to mammal is a matter of course, from amphibian to mammal is not the case.

Just like the nuclear fission reactor after the atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb, it is natural. However, many people happily believe that nuclear fusion is coming, that mankind is about to enter an era of extremely abundant energy, and that the material cornerstone of communism is almost completed. Nuclear fusion has been influenced by huge funds for decades, but it is still far away.

The same example is the moon landing. After the 1970s, there are countless literary works about Mars landing and alien colonization. People naturally believe that landing on the moon can land on Mars, and landing on Mars can colonize aliens

However, we all know the result.

The same is true of sheep cloning. If no human has completed the cloning of mammals, it is difficult to say whether the cloning of mammals can be successful.

Maybe in 10 years, maybe not in 50 years.

Especially for sheep cloned with somatic cells, the so-called true cloning, no one dares to bet before it is done.

Maybe you can't do it?

It's hard for scholars to give an exact answer. Decades ago, scholars believed they could find ether. What's the result?

The same example can also be given to frozen human and head replacement. If it is successful, people will congratulate them as they would after the success of artificial heart replacement: I know.

If it fails, people... No one knows the name of the loser.

Yang Rui is also holding the fear of failure, to do sheep cloning.

The loss of failure is huge, and the significance of success is beyond the horizon.

This is true for scholars as well as for officials.

"Professor Yang, what's your next plan?" Zheng asked Yang Rui first.

"I don't think we should try to clone people." Knowing the meaning of his question, Yang Rui said without hesitation: "the ethical problem is too serious. Next, I think we should consider how to inform countries and the scientific community."